Comments by "Harry Stoddard" (@HarryS77) on "Do Reagan's Dirty Work In New Call Of Duty" video.

  1. If Reagan isn't crazy with dementia, I better hear every gamer whining about a lack of historical accuracy.
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  2. @Drog .NDTrax Reagan did, however, effectively erase a lot of LGBT people with his neglect of the AIDS crisis...
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  3. Triple AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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  4. In the after credit scene, William Casey can be seen shaking hands with a man standing in front of boxes of weapons. Rifle shots crackle. The camera pans outside where soldiers can be seen firing, climbing walls, crawling through trenches. Casey steps out of the small building. The man follows behind. Bright desert sunlight catches his face: Osama bin Laden. Call of Duty: Nine Eleven Saddam Tried to Kill Ma Daddy
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  5. That game, for all its controversies at launch, and its overly indulgent cutscenes, keeps aging better and better. I think it's comparable to The Matrix to the extent that it was able to distill postmodernity and the information age into a blockbuster consumer product.
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  6.  @VMonkies  The Highway of Death. Look it up.
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  7.  @VMonkies  Oh wow. You're a dummy. So if I made a game set in a fictional country called Setats Detinu with a mission called "9-11" where you're tasked with hunting down Germans who orchestrated a plot to fly a plan into the Global Trade Center, your dummy brain would think aw shucks 's all right, just a bit o' fiction innit? Don't mention anyfing in the real world. Why're all these Germans and such mad 'bout a game bruv? The game literally has a mission called "Highway of Death" about a stretch of road in a Middle Eastern country where the game's Russians bombed a convoy as it was trying to escape - precisely what happened in real life, only it was the US engaged in the "turkey shootout." "Like, none, absolutely zero." What a fucking idiot you are.
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  8.  @VMonkies  Let's go one further. My mission "9-11" takes place in the fictional country Lalaland and you, an American soldier, are tasked with flying a 747 into the Imperial State Building. You can't say it's related to anything in the real world because I fictionalized the setting.
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  9.  @VMonkies  No, because there's apparently no talking sense to you. I and others have tried but you're hyper fixated on the fact that the devs...changed the name of the country. You had nothing to say about the fact that the names of the locations are the same, that the events are oddly similar, nothing to say about my alternate scenario. Nope. Just over there having a little gamer tantrum. He was a house of a man. ^Does that sentence make sense to you?
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  10.  @VMonkies  What if I made a mission called "Fat Man" about the Russians dropping an atomic bomb on the Bippon city of Nagasawa. Not at all related to real life, huh? None, absolutely zero. See: I changed some names. That's all it takes for plausible deniability.
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  11.  @VMonkies  Accuses me of sCrEaMiNg. Types furiously in bolded all caps. Lmao, all right bud. You keep up that shadowboxing.
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  12.  @ryanjapan3113  Yeah, if we just ignore salient features like the name of a well-known atrocity...And yes, "war crime" is applicable even if the world hegemon places itself above international law. We could also point out that at no time during IW's attempted damage control ove the Highway of Death fiasco did they invoke any other event as inspiration for the mission's backstory.
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  13.  @VMonkies  I understood the point you were trying to make. It's just a really stupid point. No amount of screaming about it is going to change that.
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  14.  @ryanjapan3113  The most common reason give, eg by USAG Ramsey Clark, is violation of the Geneva convention.
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  15. All art is political.
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  16.  @VMonkies  Your point is dumb. Stop.
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  17. Or we can look at what popular art might say about the assumptions, narratives, characters, and values that consumers find compelling. Sure, stuff like COD, Transformers, etc. is dumb shlock...but why that shlock and not some other? Why are those values and worldviews dominant in the market? These cultural products to some extent reflect how we want to see ourselves. Maybe it's worth thinking about that.
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  18. Most people bought Playboy ahem for the porn. But they also read the articles.
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  19.  @nohbuddy1  ...I did.
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  20. The last mission is to double tap Gary Webb.
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  21. Incel police! That's the guy!
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  22.  @bballjulien  Right there! Get that incel!
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  23.  @brianm7278  That's some Nixon/Kissinger level shit. Is that true?
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  24. Mark Fisher talks about this in Capitalist Realism, how capitalism recuperates its criticism by performing anti-capitalism for the consumer. It becomes a cathartic experience, like watching a horror movie, so that you don't need to think about it later. Such themes and tropes can also deflect attention from capitalism as a system to an individual or a corporation. Ultimately, these stories work to erase the aberrant "bad capitalist" by restoring the world to its legitimate (but still capitalist) state.
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  25. Brezhnev backed Pinochet.
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  26.  @rocketsniper8726  No, that was my COD revisionist joke. Instead of Nixon, it's Brezhnev.
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  27.  @VMonkies  Mega dummy. I can't believe your skull is that thick. I almost feel bad, because I don't know, maybe you're on the spectrum and have a hard time not being literal, but no. You're just dumb.
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